Naomi Feigelson Chase

 

 

Praise for Lily and the Stabber in the July-August 2020 Issue (Volume 122, No. 6) of The Harvard Magazine!!

"Naomi Ellenbogen Chase's latest book and first novel, Lilly and the Stabber, about New York in 1974, will appear in August. "It's about the struggle of newly divorced Lilly Jonas to bring up her children in a culture gripped by Watergate and the Vietnam War. It captures that period in the microcosm of Lilly's life from the specter of her son's imaginary Stabber to the unraveling of the Nixon administration and offers a complex view of interracial relations and an ironic view of the national unease at a time not unlike the present."

 

Lilly and the Stabber

Latest novel by Naomi Feigelson Chase

 

Witty, tender and fierce, Naomi Chase's Lilly and the Stabber casts a brilliant light on the chaos of 1974's New York. Chase has a pitch perfect ear for dialogue , a complex take on inter-racial relations, and a dramatically ironic view of the national unease at a complex time, not unlike the present. Lilly and the Stabber is an immensely satisfying novel.
                       -- Carole Rosenthal, It Doesn't Have to Be You

 

 

 

Naomi Feigelson Chase

....was a 2015/16 Fellow of the New York Fiction Society. Her fiction has been published in many magazines, nominated for a PUSHCART, and anthologized in Milkweed Editions, New Rivers Press, and A Wider Giving, among others. Her two non-fiction books are The Underground Revolution: Hippies, Yippies, & Others (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) and A Child Is Being Beaten, Child Abuse in America (Funk & Wagnalls). She has published eight books of poetry.

 

 

Praise for Lily and the Stabber

 

"Naomi Ellenbogen Chase's latest book and first novel, Lilly and the Stabber, about New York in 1974....[is] about the struggle of newly divorced Lilly Jonas to bring up her children in a culture gripped by Watergate and the Vietnam War. It captures that period in the microcosm of Lilly's life from the specter of her son's imaginary Stabber to the unraveling of the Nixon administration and offers a complex view interracial relationsand an ironic view of the national unease at a time not unlike the present."

-- The Harvard Magazine July-August 2020 (Volume 122, No. 6)

 

In a tough New York of the early 70's, Lilly Jonas forges a new life as a single parent, besieged by muggers, a murdered acquaintance, and a troubling cyst. Through marvelously compact, page-turning scenes, Naomi Chase captures the whole world of New York City and that time in America in the microcosm of Lilly's life, from the specter of her son's imaginary stabber to the unraveling of the Nixon administration. The array of characters in her life leap off the page. So do her vividly authentic children. I loved this novel. Lilly is an everyday heroine, and this could read as a delicious how-to-manage–your–life-manual or a deeply satisfying heart-to-heart with a wry, savvy woman friend. Lilly and the Stabber is a gem.
                                     -- Suzanne McConnell, Author of Pity the Reader

 

 

 

 

Praise for Naomi Feigelson Chase's Previous Work

I read Naomi Chase's work. I listen to her readings. Always her words pierce me and cause me to see and hear.. Now I have her latest. Like her Gittel, I roll onto my back to see how a voice looks.
                   Jimmy Breslin. The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight

 

After the illumination that religion sheds on today's conventional world, Chase's Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass.staarts with conventional imagery but seeking amplitude and ambiguity moves into amore pagan space. Her poems become more spacious and paradoxically compressed as she move through this book that culminates in a quite stunning finale.
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I love Anonymous Fox. I read with complete wonder and admiration how Chase looks back with wit, wisdom,and a sense of theatre as Chase moves from the personal - marriage, children, grandchildren- to the puzzling images of aging. It's brilliant.
                                           Miriam Goodman, Commercial Traveler

 

 

 

To Contact Naomi Feigelson Chase, write her at naomiruthchase@google.com